Vol. XX / No. 1
By: Rudolf Anthes
A First Season of Excavating in Memphis
Excavating in Egypt means, in most cases, digging in the desert which adjoins the cultivated area of the valley of […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 4
By: Samuel Noah Kramer
Tales of Sumer: Man's Oldest Myths
INTRODUCTION The summer of 1955 saw one of the most unusual exhibits in museum history on exhibit in Philadelphia’s University […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 3
By: Froelich Rainey
The New Museum
This study of the contemporary museum in the western nations was begun for very practical reasons. In 1953, the University […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 2
By: Cynthia Griffin
The Museum Library
When the Museum building was erected the library was established and named the Elkins Library (1898). Some ask “Does anybody […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 2
By: William R. Coe
Excavations in El Salvador
One facet of the Museum’s long-standing interest in Mesoamerica is its present concern with the prehistory of El Salvador. Interest […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 2
By: J. Alden Mason
Linguistic Research in the University Museum
It is generally taken for granted that Museum expeditions, archaeological or ethnological, will be productive of tangible results, of objects […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 1
By: Ward Goodenough
The Pageant of Death in Nakanai: A Report of the 1954 Expedition to New Britain
Romantic tradition in the western world pictures primitive communities as exciting combinations of colorful dress, bizarre customs, and sinister rites. […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 1
By: Brandon Barringer
On the Track of the Black Pig
“Cian mic Cainte was a wicked Druid who kept an academy near Drogheda, and was wont to change his pupils […]
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Vol. XVIII / No. 4
By: Froelich Rainey
Tradition and Change
The excitement of discovery was the compelling force responsible for the founding of the University Museum in the last century. […]
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Vol. XVIII / No. 3
By: Richard Emerick
The Havasupais: People of Cataract Canyon1
The American Southwest is known the world over for its unique, colorful, almost frightening beauty and there is no more […]
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